Monoskop

Welcome to Monoskop, a wiki for art, culture and media technology.

The frontpage shows a selection of the latest additions to the website. For alternative entry points see also Contents and Media library. We also feed Twitter and Facebook with updates.

Recent entries

A source bibliography on experimental film.

Nikolai Kulbin (1868-1917), patron of Russian Futurism.

A bibliography of the works of philosopher of individuation and technology Gilbert Simondon (1924-89).

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A multilingual source bibliography of the works of Vilém Flusser (1920-91).

An introduction to and bibliography of Prague Linguistic Circle.

The works of Sigmund Freud in 3 languages.

Bibliography of the works of Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825).

Collection of Bauhaus publications, including 10 volumes of Bauhausbücher, 1925-30, and issues of Bauhaus journal. Panorama of writings on sound art An extensive collection of writings of and on the Russian avant-garde. The works of Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011). Michel Foucault's bibliography in some 30 languages. The works of Karl Marx. Selected works of Immanuel Kant.

New guide to 150+ avant-garde and modernist magazines online. Writings on noise. Arseny Avraamov (1886-1944), composer of Symphony of Sirens. Collected writings on information theory and its impact across the sciences. The works of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Writings by and about the revolutionary philosopher, utopian fiction writer and early systems theorist Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928). Selected works of G.W.F. Hegel. Selected works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68).

Site news

• Monoskop wiki has been upgraded to the latest stable MediaWiki version, 1.23, and has several new extensions installed. The most exciting is MediaViewer for images which is still in beta (try it out by clicking on any image). A list of all installed extensions is here. (5 June 2014)
• Monoskop wiki re-launches in new design, inspired by Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal. (11 March 2012)
• Support of the Twitter widget enabled. You can now embed a twitter feed on your profile. (11 March 2012)
• Monoskop moves to a new domain: http://monoskop.org. Old links are preserved. (5 March 2012)
• Monoskop wiki now supports embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Google Video, UStream, and basically any publicly accessible website (using HTML5 video tag), as well as documents from Google Books, Scribd, and SlideShare, image searches and slideshows from Flickr, and stills from Google Maps and Google Street View. See MediaWikiWidgets manual to learn how. (16 November 2011)
• Realising there are almost 100 users or so registered, we did small improvements in user profiles. Using your profile (find here) you can now share what you have been working on, message others, etc. (28 July 2008)

  

Sister projects

• Monoskop Log, writings on art, culture, and media technology.
• Remake, REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments

Wiki

Monoskop is a wiki where anyone can edit any article and have those changes posted immediately. Learn how to edit pages.

Design

The current Monoskop skin was inspired by Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal and Michael Murtaugh's customized MediaWiki Monobook skin, and uses Fedra Sans font designed by Peter Biľak, along with Greek Font Society's Neohellenic font for the headlines.

Hosting

Monoskop runs on MediaWiki software, and is hosted by the Sanchez free art server, maintained by Multiplace.